All Types Needed for Impending Weather Conditions
Greenville, SC – The Blood Connection has announced a critical need for O-negative blood donors in response to multiple traumas at local hospitals. O-negative blood is recognized as the universal blood type because it can be transfused to almost any patient in need.
The Blood Connection is also urging healthy donors--first-time donors and regular donors--to donate blood in preparation for the impending inclement weather. All blood types will be needed to ensure that hospital needs are uninterrupted.
Donors can visit a donation center to give blood, or go to www.thebloodconnection.orgto find a blood drive.
Following is a list of center locations: 435 Woodruff Road, Greenville; 341 Old Abbeville Highway, Greenwood; 5116 Calhoun Memorial Highway, Easley; 1308 Sandifer Boulevard, Seneca; 270 North Grove Medical Park Drive, Spartanburg; 825 Spartanburg Highway, Hendersonville, NC; and 225 Airport Road, Arden, NC.
TBC’s mission is to ensure all hospital partners have the blood supplies needed for patients at any given time. Blood donors must be healthy, weigh at least 110 pounds, and be 17 years old or 16 with written parental consent.
About The Blood Connection
Founded as Greenville Blood Assurance in 1962, The Blood Connection (TBC) is the largest independently managed, non-profit community blood center in the region, licensed and regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In South Carolina, TBC serves Greenville, Spartanburg, Cherokee, Union, Pickens, Oconee, Greenwood, McCormick, Anderson, Laurens, Newberry and Lexington counties. TBC also contracts with Med-Trans Air Medical Transport to serve Sumter, Marion, Dorchester, Colleton, Charleston and Berkeley counties. In Georgia, TBC serves Stephens, Hall, and Barrow counties. In 2011, TBC began serving Macon, Transylvania, Henderson, Polk, Buncombe, McDowell and Mitchell counties in Western North Carolina. In 2017, TBC expanded services to include Wake, Durham, Orange, Forsyth, Rowan and Pitt counties. For more information, please visit thebloodconnection.org